I was wondering, why do you put bloody icons on the content warnings part of your videos? Or blurred gore icons? The whole point of a content warning is to protect those who could be badly affected by said content. Even a "chibi" version can still harm these people.
I usually wouldn't want to say it like this, but content warnings are not for decoration. Putting content warning screens only to put the sensitive content on the screen itself is genuinely dangerous to a lot of disabled people. Again, I don’t want to be rude, but it very much borders on ableist practice.
do you know that this is like, my 5th time typing this out cause tumblr desided to be eat my posts
but i feel like finally its tumbler users turn to hear about this so 5th times the charm 😭😭
(for those who don't know, these are my current content warning icons)
i used to put my content warnings in text. in my pinned comments, discriptions, title and the start of videos ect! however i continued to get those "nobody warned me theres gonna be gore :( " type comments. so the thought of using clear midea signals has always been in my mind.
the last push i needed to finally use these was where i started to repost my videos on bilibili, a chinese video hosting site where almost nobody uses english
and when nobody can understand the language written, text warnings that pop up for 7 seconds such as these don't really work at all.
so now i have a choice to made, oviously satisfying everyone online is simply a impossible tesk so its either
- warning everyone with a clear indecation that can be disturbing to some
- using safe texts but can be misleading
and as a gore/blood enjoyer, i decided to cater to the first option.
cause imagine seeing this and the next scene is a semi realistic dear with blood dripping down its mangled head
plus i did tried some other icon options on my dad before (who don't know ANYTHING when it comes to the english language)
when presented with this, he had no idea what this is supposed to represent
i get where you're coming from!! but again, i cannot satisfy everyone here, i had to make choices.
and i do belive those who'll get disturbed by my actual content when not properly being warned would be far more in numbers then those who'd get disturbed by cartoon media.
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